Traces of Old and New Center-Periphery Dynamics in Language-in-Education Policy and Practice: Insights from a Linguistic Ethnographic Study in Timor-Leste

Autor/inn/en	Da Costa Cabral, Ildegrada; Martin-Jones, Marilyn
Titel	Traces of Old and New Center-Periphery Dynamics in Language-in-Education Policy and Practice: Insights from a Linguistic Ethnographic Study in Timor-Leste
Quelle	In: AILA Review, 30 (2017) 1, S.96-119 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1461-0213
DOI	10.1075/aila.00005.dac
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Ethnography; Language Planning; Portuguese; Official Languages; Malayo Polynesian Languages; History; Policy Analysis; Language Attitudes; Foreign Policy; Educational Policy; Language of Instruction; Language Teachers; Teacher Attitudes; Code Switching (Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Teaching Methods; Interviews; Observation; Elementary School Students; Timor-Leste + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Ethnografie; Sprachwechsel; Portugiesischunterricht; Office language; Amtssprache; Geschichte; Geschichtsdarstellung; Politikfeldanalyse; Sprachverhalten; Außenpolitik; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Lehrerverhalten; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Beobachtung
Abstract	This article reveals how center-periphery relations have unfolded, over time, in language policy processes in one nation--Timor-Leste--on the global periphery. We take a "longue durée" perspective on the language policy processes at work in this historical context, showing how different regimes of language were imposed, in the past, by colonisers from distant centers--in Portugal and then in Java, Indonesia. Then, turning to the post-independence period, we show how a new order of indexicality, forged within the Resistance to the Indonesian occupation, formed the basis for current language policy in Timor-Leste, with Portuguese and Tetum as co-official languages. We also demonstrate that this agentive policy move, from the global periphery, oriented Timor-Leste to new and more complex center-periphery relations, to a "lusophone" world, with Portugal and Brazil as key players. Our account of contemporary policy discourses in Timor-Leste, and of the consequences for language policy implementation, on different scales (national and local), draws on recent research of an ethnographic and multi-scalar nature conducted in Timor-Leste (Da Costa Cabral, 2015). (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01